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- From: misc335@csc.canterbury.ac.nz
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Date: 13 Mar 96 19:55:13 +1200
- Organization: University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
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- Message-ID: <1996Mar13.195513@cantva>
- References: <1996Mar11.221045@cantva> <4i3sje$fmq@erinews.ericsson.se>
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- >>No, the playstation certainly has the edge pricewise, but a p6 is quite a bit
- >>better at graphics, (though to be fair, their are very few _games_ which
- >>currantly take advantage of the power.) Anyway, this is irrelevant, as well as
- >>consoles being limited to only games, the problem is that they only shine for a
- >>few months and then you're stuck with a dated system.
- >
- > Are you kidding me? First of all, a P6 doesn't even do graphics on its own :)
- > Second, a playstation can handle more textured polygons than a P6, ie. BETTER
- > DOOM. You can't even compare the calculation power of the P6 to a graphics
- > only processor.
-
- This is a bit off-topic here, so replies to email I guess...
-
- p6 refers to p6 powered computer. A playstation cannot handle more textured
- polygons, especially when you consider the playstations texturemapping is the
- same as that in descent - a bit faster than the proper method, but results in
- jumpy textures, the p6, especially if the software makes use of its FPU (which
- is pretty good 'cause Intel was aiming at the workstation market) can do quite
- a bit better than the playstation by sheer brute force.
-
- (BTW Doom on the PC is speed locked to no more than 35 fps, which a good 486
- will reach. Running Doom on a decent Pentium you have so much power left idle
- it's not funny (medusa won't slow ya down until you park your nose on it!), and
- the p6 blows away a pentium anyway. Doom is a bad comparison because it is
- different on the two platforms.)
-
- I'm waffling, sorry, but I agree it is very difficult to compare a cpu with a
- dedicated graphics chip, because the results are very much dependant on how
- well the benchtest was written for the cpu, and how well suited to the job the
- dedicated chip is.
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